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Traveling 1 mile under the hudson would involve deals with at least 6 entities: the states of NY and NJ, the port authority, the federal government via amtrak, and the city government of NYC and whichever municipality on the NJ side.

When we have a market crash caused by private actors trading and someone says "OBVIOUSLY the problem is GOVERNMENT" I think they're arguing backwards from ideology rather than working forwards from observation.

That's fine and all but turning around and accusing the conventional wisdom of 'lacking a deep understanding' is a bit much.

I'm not sure what you want with more specificity. You're familiar with the situation, right? You want a book report on what happened?

Yes, the government exists, and no, a few extra loans for black people didn't crash the housing market. This was a problem between ratings agencies, salespeople, and financial instrument inventors.

Add up the value of every house in the USA. They're not hundreds of trillions of dollars.

The banks got really creative, a bunch of people made nice bonuses, then when their fancy leveraged mechanisms went bad, we all had to bail them out.

Your argument is that we should aspire to merely "just better than the other guys", with the subtext that Democrats aren't really any better than Republicans.

'muhfuhkah' pointed out that it IS better. Which is worth pointing out in a two party system.

We just watched a whole bunch of people make your same arguments, saying Obama wasn't perfect so whatever they're all the same, and as a result we elected a guy who's much worse in every possible way. Great job, everyone.

When we had the march to war in Iraq, suspect intel was being selectively and deceitfully pulled out of context specifically to build a case for war in Iraq. By politicians, not by intel professionals. A bunch of former intel people went on record calling BS on it.

Right now, nobody's making a case for war with Russia. Retaliatory sanctions at best. They mostly just want to harden our election process and systems to prevent it from happening again, or worse.

Yet we see constantly moving goalposts from people who don't want that hardening to happen. What's their motivation?

Look at Oracle.

"First, let's assume the cow is a sphere".

But Russia as a state is pretty much synonymous with Putin as a person, right now. Until that changes, it's splitting hairs.

CIA, FBI and NSA all concur, they all put out unclassified statements with their conclusions, although they obviously kept much of their supporting evidence classified.

"There's no doubt that some bad actors have been poking around," FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Wednesday, without offering any more specifics.

He acknowledged there have been “some attempted intrusions at voter registration databases” since August, when the FBI issued a bulletin to state governments warning that hackers had infiltrated the Illinois State Board of Elections and tried to breach election systems in Arizona.

I think with these coins it could be a decent bet that we'll see this happen again in the next year or two.

Had 2 100-year floods, the first 2 springs I owned it.

Scala did a lot of things that pushed mainstream programming forward, but it's also crapped up with a lot of detritus, ideas that didn't work out, and ideas that were always obviously bad.

The constitution does not mandate all good things, does not forbid all bad things, but VERY NOTABLY includes the 9th amendment. They put that one in for a reason.

Generally when the question "who the heck dissented on that?!?!" is asked, the answer is Thomas.

1) Ownership model means RC only needs to be used rarely in Rust, and ARC even less, minimizing the throughput impact?

2) Simplicity benefits were overwhelming considering the targets you were aiming for?

Or something else?

But in C and Go you can pass pointers to pointers, in Java and Python objects with mutable object references..

It seems like the whole article could have been "Go does not have the C++ reference type, so it's not really in the mix when calling functions".

If I pass a java object to a function, I'm passing a (probably) 8-byte pointer to some memory with a class tag, fields, whatever. It goes on the stack just like an 8 byte long.

In languages that support pointers more directly, I'm doing the same thing, maybe minus the class tag in the pointed-to memory. Address is in an 8 byte type, put it on the stack and access the pointed-to struct in your new frame.

Yet I've seen interview questions about whether you're "passing by reference" or "passing a reference by value" like there's some big meaningful difference and one answer is wrong.

I don't get it. Is this just one of those nerd arguments where we're debating semantics for the sake of it?

I'm as liberal as they come, I'm very sensitive to disguised racism, but the tweets' entire basis of comparison between Musk and Moses is "both are/were ambitious men and now musk is talking about infrastructure". It's free-association garbage.

The Moses story is fascinating because he accomplished great things that built NYC but was also a horrible person. The tweeter you linked is like, "hey, Musk is trying to accomplish great things, he must be just like Moses".